Team:WPI Worcester/HP/Gold


iGEM teams are unique and leading the field because they "go beyond the lab" to imagine their projects in a social/environmental context, to better understand issues that might influence the design and use of their technologies.

Teams work with students and advisors from the humanities and social sciences to explore topics concerning ethical, legal, social, economic, safety or security issues related to their work. Consideration of these Human Practices is crucial for building safe and sustainable projects that serve the public interest.

Integrated Human Practices This summer we held multiple interviews with scientists and graduate students that have worked with CRISPR and/or RNA before. We listen to their ideas and tried to incorporate solutions to any possible concerns they had into our project. We also talked about public perception of out project and how to explain RNA editing to the public. For more information see our Integrated Human Practices page here.
Improve a previous part or project Improve the function OR characterization of an existing BioBrick Part or Device and enter this information in the Registry. Please see the Registry help page on how to document a contribution to an existing part. This part must NOT be from your 2016 part number range. See the part we helped to document here.
Proof of concept Demonstrate a functional proof of concept of your project. Your proof of concept must consist of a BioBrick device; a single BioBrick part cannot constitute a proof of concept. What we did here
Demonstrate your work Show your project working under real-world conditions. To achieve this criterion, you should demonstrate your whole system, or a functional proof of concept working under simulated conditions in the lab. what we did here